Personal Group announces Martin Bennett to its Board as Non-Executive Director

– UK, London –  Personal Group PLC (LON: PGH), a leading provider of employee services in the UK, today announced the appointment of Martin Bennett to its Board as a Non-Executive Director from 1st January 2021.

“Personal Group and its board will benefit greatly from Martin’s business and technical experience. In particular, he has led regulated businesses and held listed company positions where, amongst other roles, he was responsible for investor relations. I look forward to working with Martin in 2021.” said Board Chairman, Mark Winlow.

About Martin Bennett

Martin is an experienced public company director having held several executive and non-executive roles for companies within the consumer, technology, and other sectors. He currently chairs the boards of two privately-owned technology-led companies, Ventureprise plc and Foreign Currency Direct plc, together with the Association of Foreign Exchange and Payments Companies, a trade body responsible for the UK payments industry.

Before these appointments, Martin held the role of CEO UK of Homeserve plc having been Chief Financial Officer until 2012, where he led the successful strategic turnaround of Homeserve’s UK business. Martin is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having qualified in 1994.

About Personal Group Holdings Plc

Personal Group Holdings Plc is a technology-enabled employee services business, working with employers to drive productivity through better employee engagement and a more motivated workforce. With over 35 years’ experience, the Company provides employee benefits and services to a large number of employees across the UK.

Personal Group offers in-house services, including employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans, and death benefit), the provision of home technology via salary sacrifice (iPads, computers, laptops, smartphones, and smart TVs), the provision of e-payslips, and pay and reward consulting via Innecto, the leading independent UK consultancy acquired in 2019. Third-party services include retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, wellbeing programmes, and salary sacrifice cars and bikes.

The product offer is provided via the Company’s proprietary technology platform, Hapi. The platform is intuitive, designed primarily for app deployment, and also accessible via web and tablet, driving better engagement, communication and value recognition. Hapi is flexible and can quickly integrate additional services, such as existing employee services and partner platforms. Hapi is a digital SaaS product.

Through technology and select acquisitions, the Company has grown its addressable market to the majority of the working population in the UK; including 15.6m SME employees targeted via its partnership with Sage, the UK’s largest software company.

The Personal Group innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, in combination with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, delivers a compelling offer to blue-chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees. The acquisition of Innecto in February 2019 allows Personal Group to engage with clients earlier in their thinking around Pay and Reward, and to interact with a new base of blue-chip and fast growth clients typically at HR Director and CEO level.

Personal Group has a strong client base across a diverse range of sectors. Clients include Arsenal F.C., Barchester Healthcare Ltd, DHL Supply Chain Limited, The Go-Ahead Group plc, Samworth Brothers Ltd, Independent Television News, Stagecoach Group plc and Wincanton plc.

For more information: https://www.personalgroup.com/

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